Sometimes when you are in Poundland, covered in snow, holding an industrial bottle of bleach for your blocked toilet, having a little cry at the state of your life, a song will come on the shop's crackly stereo and you think "actually, 2010 might be ok after all". And then you reach into your pocket to pay for your bleach and you only have 97p, but the man lets you have it anyway because he too is cheered up by the song on the radio. This is, of course, a purely fictional scenario and in no way whatsoever did this happen to us on Saturday. But if it had, the song on the radio might have been Frankie & The Heartstrings' 'Hunger'.
Featuring jangly guitars and a hefty bass line, followed up with rousing 'oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ohhhs' and HANDCLAPS, you might fear you are in Fratellis et al territory. But 'Hunger' is delivered with such verve, excitement and, crucially, sincerity that this is elevated way above lads-on-tour indie, and becomes one of those genre busting songs that transcends classification.
We've built it up too much now, but here it is:
There are other bits and pieces by F&THS floating around the world wide web, and you can see the video to downtempo (though equally endearing) track 'Fragile' on their myspace.
We will be keeping one eye firmly on Frankie and his heartstrings this year. And the other on whoever it was that blocked our toilet.
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